Hello,
I have a 1997 jeep grand cherokee zj. It has a panasonic face plate to the stereo but the speakers are stock. My problem is the sound cuts in and out and wont even work on some stations. It only works in certain area's of town. Its not the stations because it works fine on everybody elses car in my household except mine. Any body have any suggestions as to what it could be?

I know it's pretty common for people to use wire nuts in their car wiring. I've personally pulled that crap out of more than a dozen cars and it's solved their radio issues. I doubt it's grounding out because if it were you would be blowing a fuse every time...an unintentional ground is another term for short circuit.

sounds to me like you are getting a short in your antennae circuit. i would check the wire and connection to the head unit, if you don't see a problem i would be looking at a different non panasonic head unit.

sounds to me like you are getting a short in your antennae circuit. i would check the wire and connection to the head unit, if you don't see a problem i would be looking at a different non panasonic head unit.

I second that, my ZJ has not been able to pick up radio stations in the 4 years I've owned it, I tried a different radio thinking mine was broke and that wasn't it so I'm pretty sure I have a bad wire going to the antenna but I gave up and never looked into fixing it since I just use my ipod all the time.